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This bilingual publication retraces a journey and a set of studies, graphic creations and texts that lead to a process of drawing research in a digital environment. The effects of the code and the materiality of the data of the generative drawing made with a plotting table show the symptom of a period of transition, of an unresolved form. The singularity of the drawing executed with a plotter on the sheet of paper acts as the production of concrete micro spaces that maintain the tangible link between the ancestral writing of signs and the digital code that now represents the world’s business.

Taking a critical look at the transition from drawing to graphic paths and its computational logic, Pierre Braun investigates the aesthetic interest of computer plotting by questioning it from the sleeper paths he has followed since the early 1980s. In a tricky way, it interrogates the data captured by visualization in the design and manufacturing process of machine drawing. How can code and graphical plots be combined to produce new forms of emancipation? The aesthetic radicality of generative, programmed, black and white drawing plays on standards and surpasses them by voluntarily producing almost nothing on the scale of a world worked on by digitalization.